Housing as Healthcare

• By: Andrea Kocsis, LCSW Kathy Pandekakes Human Development Services of Westchester (HDSW)
• October 1st, 2017
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The design and operations of supportive housing programs in New York State has been positively impacted in numerous ways by the state’s Medicaid Redesign process over the last six years. The state’s Medicaid Redesign Team (MRT) recognized early on that housing is a major social determinant of...

Integration on a Continuum: Models for Integrating Behavioral Health and Primary Health Care

• By: Alan Trager, LCSW Amy Anderson-Winchell, LCSW Amy Kohn, DSW Andrea Kocsis, LCSW Andrew O’Grady, LCSW-R Elizabeth Kadatz Stephanie Madison, LMSW
• October 1st, 2015
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In the recent years of Medicaid Redesign in New York State, community-based mental health agencies who serve persons with serious and complex psychiatric conditions have addressed the evolving transformation of health care in a variety of ways. Much of the response has been reactive, with agencies...

Coordinated Behavioral Health Services, Inc. (CBHS) – One Group’s Pathway Toward Preparing for Managed Care

• By: Amy Anderson-Winchell, LCSW Occupations Inc. Andrea Kocsis, LCSW Human Development Services of Westchester (HDSW) Amy Kohn, DSW The Mental Health Association of Westchester Stephanie Madison, LMSW The Mental Health Association of Rockland Alan Trager, LCSW Westchester Jewish Community Services (WJCS)
• April 1st, 2014
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Coordinated Behavioral Health Services (CBHS), incorporated in 2012, is comprised of eight leading behavioral health and developmental disability nonprofit community-based agencies serving the Lower/Mid-Hudson River Region of New York State, and providing services in Westchester, Putnam, Rockland,...